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Space Food

Patented: History of Inventions

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Space Station Food

On shuttle it was a 100 % personal preference menuso. They would tell us exactly what they wanted for each meal, and we would pack it that way. We tried to do that when we went into the spce station era, but it was an abysmal failure. For a crew member who's staying on orbit for six months, there's approximately 70 containers of food that you've got to get there at a certain time. And part of the time i was up there, i ha to eat joe blow's food. And joe blow had terrible taste ind food.

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